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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5447B69B.9020405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54475648.3000805@towo.net>

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On 10/22/2014 01:01 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:

> 
> mv XY xy does not work if XY is a directory (no effect, no message)

Might be something I can fix (I already have cygwin-local patches to
allow 'mv A.txt a.txt', so it is probably just incomplete if directories
aren't working).

> 
> If I switch Windows to case-sensitivity, there is no .EXE magic (only
> .exe magic).
> So e.g. PING: command not found, while PING.EXE works.

I know the .exe magic I added in coreutils tries to be case insensitive,
but I don't know if cygwin1.dll does the same; in the case of exec'ing a
program, that's the cygwin1.dll choosing whether to try all possible cases.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22  7:01 Thomas Wolff
2014-10-22 13:52 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-10-22 13:55   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-22 14:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-23 12:42   ` Thomas Wolff
2014-10-23 15:36     ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-23 17:21       ` Thomas Wolff
2014-10-23 22:05         ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-24  9:55         ` Corinna Vinschen

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